Lots of Folks Don’t Have Clean Water & We Stopped Talking About It
August 30, 2022 Mississippi governor shared that his states water crisis was now a state of emergency. A fact that Jackson, Mississippi residents (a population of nearly 150,000) had been experiencing first hand. Being warned to boil water to make it safe to drink came from local health officials July 30. Not having enough water pressure to flush toilets was now commonplace. Such outrageous facts continue to become the lived experiences of Jackson residents—water flowing from faucets went from cloudy to nearly black and bottled water ran out. Poverty and racism contributing to the poor infrastructure that eventually led to this crisis. The fight for clean water has been a problem for predominantly Black areas from Flint (where lead contamination made access to clean water an emergency) to Jackson, just to name the most recent, it is also encountered on Native Reservations throughout the US and Canada. On Indigenous reservations, boiling water warnings are lasting years and widel
